WordPress was designed as a platform for blogging, but you don’t have to use it as a blogging tool. With the right expertise, it can be used to run your website, with or without a “blog.” The fact that WordPress was designed as a blogging platform gives it compelling advantages over any other option, especially for small to mid-sized businesses.

Top Five Reasons to Use WordPress for Your Website

1. You get a blog and a website all in one.  Although WordPress is a blogging platform, it can function as your website due to one of the core elements called a theme.  This is essentially the design template being used on all of the pages of your site.  With proper customization, these themes make your site look like a website, instead of just a blog.  (One side note:  the type of customization I’m referring to requires the open source code available on WordPress.org.  WordPress.com will limit your customization, control of the site, and your ability to modify the code.  All you need is a good developer!)
2. You are your own webmaster.  It’s easy to update content on your website without knowing HTML.  You don’t have to ask your webmaster every time you want to make a small change to your site.  With WordPress, you can easily create new pages or edit existing pages using a simple rich text editor.
3. Better SEO.  WordPress provides great search engine optimization (SEO) right from the start.  It is optimized for easily publishing and changing content.   And getting good search engine rankings requires fresh, unique content. You need a system that does not get in your way when you want to update your website with a new article or new content.
4. Functionality – There are hundreds of additional plug-ins that allow you to add powerful functionality to your web site.  Visually, you can add contact forms, polls, social bookmarking, rotating images, and tons more.  Behind the scenes, there are some impressive SEO plug-ins to make sure your content gets noticed (and highly ranked) on the Web.
5. WordPress.org software has become one of the best ways for small businesses and entrepreneurs to easily build feature rich, simple to edit, search engine friendly websites.

Check out our latest WordPress blogsite created for Kelly O’Neil International.  Tell me, does it look like a blog?

To find out how to create YOUR custom WordPress website, call Tom Sullivan at 877-673-7096 x708, or email Tom@TurboSocialMedia.com.

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There is no 1 item that will automatically put you in that #1 spot. In order to reach the top you have to work for it. You have to do what you can to create a lot of buzz around your site, whether it be back links, SEO, videos, blog posts, etc… It is all part of the formula to be the best.

Another trick to reaching the top is focusing on a niche market. We have had a lot of success with Zerona Lipo laser Doctors as they are targeting a specific search, and they are usually geo-targeting a specific area. Take Dr. Malay for example. Dr. Malay is a Zerona laser doctor located in Dallas Texas. You cannot do any Zerona related search about the greater Dallas area without finding her. Don’t believe us? Check out the testimonial from her here:

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Article by Zack Zucker, Director of Operations, Turbo Social Media

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If you go back through some of our blog posts you will notice we have often times used videos to help get our point across. We do this for a couple reasons:

1. It’s fun to make the videos
2. It grabs people’s attention
3. Proper Intro and Outro/Call to Action can help drive a lot of traffic
4. As my favorite comedian always says “Why Read when you Can Watch it” (See video below)

What this technology means for us is, is that a video done right can really enhance what you are trying to sell. If a video is done properly the video can show up in the search results just as a webpage would. And if you edit the video properly, you can really capture your viewers attention and get them interested in learning more from your site.

To learn more about Social Media Marketing and Video Marketing, fill out the form on the right to watch our free video series or give us a call at 877-673-7096.

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Once you Download Surf Canyon you will notice something a little different with all of your searches, there is now a little bulls-eye next to the title of every search entry. By clicking on this it bring up all relevant data on all Search pages! What this means is, is when you type in your search query and are given thousands of results, you can click the bulls-eye on one of the results that is relevant to what you are actually looking for (let’s face it, when you search for something, not everything that comes up is applicable to what you are looking for), a list will appear below that result that pulls up all the search results (as far back as page 100 in the search results), thus making it easier to find what you are looking for.

Surf Canyon is really on to something here as is a fantastic idea. It is ideas such as this that often times become staples in the development of different Search Engines. I would not be surprised if in the next few months Google issues this as a standard in their search results, making all search results indexed to find much easier, based on what you are searching for

To learn more about Social Media Marketing and SEO, fill out the form on the right to watch our free video series or give us a call at 877-673-7096.

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